Adam Baumgold Fine Art presents the exhibition, Bruce McCall: Visions of the Retrofuture, from October 15 – November 7, 2025, to be held at DFN Projects, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th St., (Suite #1103), New York, NY 10022.
 

Bruce McCall (1935–2023) was a visionary artist and writer whose meticulously executed drawings and paintings appeared on more than 80 covers of The New Yorker magazine. This major exhibition of over 60 works from the estate of the artist will include many original New Yorker cover paintings, as well as several works from the original National Lampoon, Vanity Fair and others, and drawings from his books Zany Afternoons, The Last Dream-O-Rama (The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build 1950–1960), All Meat Looks Like South America, Marveltown, and This Land was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me), with David Letterman.
 

Visitors can also view notes and sketches from McCall’s archive, related to some of the paintings on display, offering a rare glimpse into his creative process. This will be the first solo McCall exhibition since Bruce McCall’s New York at The New York Historical in 2021, and the first posthumous appreciation of his career since his death in 2023. In Bruce Handy’s remembrance of Bruce McCall in Graydon Carter’s Air Mail he writes that McCall’s artworks “[were] executed with painstaking detail in gouache on paper or board; he took familiar objects, places and spaces and twisted them askew, playing with scale, perspective, and elementary physics but rendering the results with a deadpan realism that made the fantastic look matter-of-fact. You could call him a funnier Magritte.”
 

McCall in his TED Talk in 2008 said, “My work is so personal and so strange that I have to invent my own lexicon for it – Retrofuturism – looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.” And, he added “They are always wrong, often hilariously, optimistically wrong.” The opening reception is on Wednesday, October 15 from 5–7 pm. Hours are Monday – Friday, 11–4 pm. For further information, please contact Adam Baumgold at abaumgold@aol.com.